Selected Op-Eds
"U.S. needs to be on side of Egyptian People." Progressive Media Project. (Jan. 31, 2011).
Archived op-eds can be found here.
Selected ARTICLES
“My Arab Problem” The Chronicle of Higher Education (October 29, 2010).
“LIVES: Sects and the City” The New York Times Magazine (May 23, 2010).
“'Where are you from?' is not the right question." CNN.com (April 5, 2010).
“The Race is On: Muslims and Arabs in the American Imagination" MERIP.org (March, 2010).
“What Passes for Progress,” (A review of Engaging the Muslim World, by Juan Cole, and Sowing Crisis, by Rashid Khalidi.)The Progressive(subscription) (August 2009): 42-44.
A review of David Keen's Endless War? Hidden Functions of the 'War on Terror' Development and Change (subscription) 39:5 (2008): 870-871.
"The Searchers: Lebanon's Cosmopolitan Roots." The Nation. (Oct. 22, 2008).
"Arab America's September 11." The Nation (subscription) (Sept. 25, 2006).
"A Light in Brooklyn." The Nation (subscription) (Sept. 25, 2006).
Inside Lebanon: A Cold Civil War. The Brooklyn Rail (Feb. 2006).
"Disco Inferno." The Nation (December 26, 2005). Reprinted in The Best Muslic Writing 2006.
"In Beirut's Tent City" Diary. London Review of Books. (subscription) (May 5, 2005)
"A Testimonial to My Teacher." The Village Voice (Sept. 30, 2003).
"A Bloody Stupid War." Middle East Report (Summer 2004). (JStor link here)
ACADEMIC ESSAYS
"Racing Religion." The Centennial Review 6:2 (2006): 267-94.
"Our philological home is the earth." Arab Studies Quarterly 26:4 (Fall 2004).
"Our Work Is of This World." Amerasia 33:1 (Spring 2005).
Staying Put: Aboriginal Rights, the Question of Palestine, and Asian American Studies. Amerasia. 29:2 (2003).
Moving Beliefs: The Panama Manuscript of Sheikh Sana See and African Diaspora Islam. Interventions 5:1 (April 2003).
East of the Sun (West of the Moon): Islam, the Ahmadis, and African America. Journal of Asian American Studies 4:3:3 (2001).
Shadows and Light: Colonial Modernity and the Grande Mosquée of Paris. The Yale Journal of Criticism 13.2 (2000).
"Moorish Science: the Secret History of African Ameircan islam." Transition 80 (1999).
BOOKS/ BOOK CHAPTERS
“The God That Failed: the Neo-Orientalism of Today’s Muslim Commentators.” Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Forthcoming 2010.
“Being Young, Muslim and American in Brooklyn.” Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global North and South. Eds. Linda Herrera and Asef Bayat. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Forthcoming 2010.
"‘East of the Sun (West of the Moon)’: Islam, the Ahmadis, and African America.." Black Routes to Islam. Eds. Manning Marable and Hisham Aidi. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 69-78.
"Racing Religion." American Studies: An Anthology. Eds. Janice Radway, Kevin Gaines, Barry Shank, Penny Von Eschen. Malden: Blackwell Pub., 2009. 99-108.
"October 17, 1961." On the Edges of Development Cultural Interventions (Routledge Studies in Development and Society). Eds. Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya A Kurian, Debashish Munshi. New York: Routledge, 2009. 13-21.
"Disco Inferno." Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, and More. ed. Mary Gaitskill (Da Capo Press, 2006).
"Reconciliation without duress: Edward Said, Theodor Adorno, and the Autonomous Intellectual." Edward Said and Critical Decolonization, ed. Ferial Ghazoul. (AUC Press, 2005).
"Displaced Pople/Meanings/Monuments." (co-authored with J.D. Dodds and G. Ahorani) in The Next Jerusalem: Sharing the Divided City, ed. Michael Sorkin (Monacelli 2002)
"Letter to a G-Man." in After the World Trade Center. ed. Sharon Zukin and Michael Sorkin (Routledge, 2002).
The Edward Said Reader, eds. Moustafa Bayoumi and Andrew Rubin (Vintage, 2000).
